Welcome to AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials. If you’re new to the cloud, whether you’re in a technical or non-technical role such as finance, legal, sales, marketing, this course will provide you with an understanding of fundamental AWS Cloud concepts to help you gain confidence to contribute to your organization’s cloud initiatives. This course is also the starting point to prepare for your AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification whenever it’s convenient for you.
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AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
Amazon Web ServicesAbout this Course
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Beginner Level
General IT and Business Knowledge
Approx. 19 hours to complete
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Understand the working definition of the AWS Cloud
Differentiate between on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and all-in cloud
Describe the basic global infrastructure of the AWS Cloud
Explain the benefits of the AWS Cloud
Skills you will gain
- Cloud Computing Security
- AWS cloud
- cloud networking
- Cloud Computing
- Migration and Innovation
Flexible deadlines
Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
Shareable Certificate
Earn a Certificate upon completion
100% online
Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
Beginner Level
General IT and Business Knowledge
Approx. 19 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: English
Could your company benefit from training employees on in-demand skills?
Try Coursera for Business
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Amazon Web Services
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 90 fully featured services for compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, developer, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, security, hybrid and enterprise applications, from 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic regions. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the world — including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies — to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs.
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
4 hours to complete
Introduction to Amazon Web Services, Compute in the Cloud
In Week 1, you'll learn how to describe three cloud computing deployment models and the six benefits of cloud computing. Additionally, you'll learn the benefits of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing, and additional compute options.
4 hours to complete
11 videos (Total 48 min), 18 readings, 2 quizzes
3 hours to complete
Global Infrastructure and Reliability, Networking
In Week 2, you will learn how to summarize the AWS Global Infrastructure benefits, describe Availability Zones, communicate the benefits of Amazon CloudFront and compare methods for provisioning AWS services. Additionally, you'll be able to describe basic networking concepts and the differences between public and private networking resources.
3 hours to complete
12 videos (Total 49 min), 10 readings, 5 quizzes
2 hours to complete
Storage and Databases
In Week 3, you will learn how to summarize the basics of storage and databases, including describing the benefits of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Additionally, you'll be able to summarize various storage solutions and describe the benefits of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon DynamoDB.
2 hours to complete
12 videos (Total 42 min), 10 readings, 3 quizzes
2 hours to complete
Security
In Week 4, you will learn how to communicate the benefits of the shared responsibility model, describe multi-factor authentication (MFA), and differentiate between the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) security levels. Additionally, you'll be able to confidently explain the main benefits of AWS Organizations.
2 hours to complete
8 videos (Total 37 min), 7 readings, 4 quizzes
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TOP REVIEWS FROM AWS CLOUD PRACTITIONER ESSENTIALS
by TMOct 18, 2021
Highly Recommended for Beginners in Cloud. The course is really good to get started, I'd like to recommend to expand it with quick labs.
by JSNov 20, 2021
Excellent introduction to AWS. The instructors were wonderful: enthusiastic and knowledgable. They also were fun which made the material more fun.
by TFApr 2, 2021
This is extremely amazing sorry I didn’t get started when I first applied ah few months ago it wasn’t letting in but now I’m thank happy I’ve gotten the opportunity 😭❤️👏🏾
by OKFeb 20, 2021
This course simply qualifies as the best course I have completed on coursera. The instructors, the teaching methods, the graphics and illustrations were simly excellent.
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